A. Smith 
The Origins of Catalan Nationalism, 1770-1898 [PDF ebook] 

This book looks at the reasons behind the emergence of a Catalan nationalist movement from the late 1880s, one of the most important developments that took place in nineteenth-century Spain, with the ‘Catalan question’ thereafter never far from the centre of the Spanish political stage.

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Introduction 1. King, Patria and Nation: Catalonia from the Ancien Regime to Liberalism 2. Catalonia in the Spanish Nation-Building Project, 1814-68 3. Liberalism, Romanticism and the Consolidation of a Catalan Cultural Identity, 1814-74 4. Centralization, Decentralization and the Construction of a Catalan Political Regionalism, 1814-74 5. The Catalan Haute Bourgeoisie and the State, 1875-98 6. The Travails of Liberal Catalanism, 1875-98 7. The Church, the Right, and the Forging of a Catalan Nationalist Movement, 1875-98 Conclusions

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Angel Smith is Reader in Modern Spanish History at the University of Leeds, UK. He has worked predominately in the areas of Spanish labour and social history and national identities and nationalisms in Spain. His most recent works are
The Agony of Spanish Liberalism: From Revolution to Dictatorship, 1913–23 (edited with Francisco J. Romero Salvadó),
Historical Dictionary of Spain, 2nd ed. (2009) and
Anarchism, Revolution and Reaction: Catalan Labour and the Crisis of the Spanish State, 1898–1923 (2007)..